June 20, 2009

Warhammer Cereal Boxes

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Filed under: Art for me!,Miniatures,Miscellaneous,Running — Tags: , , — Illinia @ 2:51 pm
They'll make your teeth look like this guy's

They'll make your teeth look like this guy's

Brettonios
drawn ???
posted Jun 20, 2009
(453)

I <3 NY! Except I've never been there...

I <3 NY! Except I've never been there...

Frosty High Elves Flakes
drawn ???
posted Jun 20, 2009
(453)

zelacolav100Helloooooo!!! I posted a picture. Actually, two pictures. Isn’t that exciting?

These were actually drawn by my Dad on a blank cardboard box that came inside a cereal box. I forget what kind of cereal. Some vaguely health-oriented cereal. Nature’s Path type cereal. I’m not sure. Go buy some healthy cereals until you find one with two blank boxes inside. It won’t hurt you, anyway. I think these pictures are hilarious, but then I laugh at a lot of things.

Maybe I’ll have more actual pictures for you tomorrow!

Soooo… what to talk about. There’s a lot that’s happened since January. I got into Performance at UVic!!! Woot! So now I have to start acting like it. I’m now learning the Waldstein Sonata by Beethoven, the Franck Variations Symphoniques again (going to enter the Concerto Competition next year) and Liszt’s La Campanella, as a study etude, not a performance etude. I’m also learning the 2-3 part Inventions/Sinfonias just so that I know them, although May Ling says I could play three or four of them as one selection. I am supposed to be looking for a couple other pieces (Dutilleaux Sonata for piano, Liebermann Gargoyles) but I haven’t gotten to the library yet. :P

Also, Festival went well… I played a solo recital and it went well except for the Buxtehude… I turned pages for the Best Concert Evar (Duruflé’s Requiem + a whole bunch of motets an’ stuff) and made a new friend while doing it – the organist, who is awesome. And he lives in Vancouver and he collects swords. And tonight I’m going to be playing the Duruflé Sanctus in a wedding. It’s one of the more difficult movements, but fortunately the choir director is taking it a lot slower than Peter Butterfield (the ‘other’ Butterfield brother, ftw).

Also, as you’ve probably noticed, I’ve started running frequently. I want to be a bit slimmer before I go and buy new jeans to replace the ones I have, which are getting all ripped up for no reason at all. Blah.

Exciting weekend! I went to Vancouver on Thursday to play the Creston saxophone concerto (orchestral reduction) for my saxophonist in a terribly prestigious masterclass (Eugene Rousseau from the Paris Conservatoire comes to Van every year, apparently) and I got to see a bunch of friends (including the organist) whom I haven’t seen in some time. Although L is, I think, still in Taiwan. :( I hope to see her at some point this summer. That would be nice. I should really go to Van more often and get to know the city a bit better. And see folks, yeah. So far I just know the 99 bus route (sorta not really) and the area around Bard on the Beach, where my grand-aunt lives. Organist says they’re doing Othello this year, so I think I should go because I don’t know anything about Othello but it’s supposed to be important. Oh, and I drew pictures of all Zela’s family on the ferry in my new super-mini-sketchbook. They turned out well, mostly. Zela and Flaer (although he has shoulders too broad) and Flaria especially came out well.

I’m not really composing at the moment, but I do have the idea I want to write some organ variations on Ash Grove. My brother says he’ll go insane – he knows it too well already.

Oh, dear. Mom just this minute got me interested in Irish dancing, because she went to Courtenay this last week on a working vacation and her temporary boss watches Britain’s Got Talent and showed her some guy called Stavros Flatley who parodies Riverdance, so then I watched some Riverdance to see what was going on and now I am a Riverdance fan. Um. This is interesting too.

There are probably a zillion other things to say, but they’re either old or ultimately even less interesting than these, so I’ll save them for now. Tomorrow I will try to update again, with some actual drawings! That would be cool.

December 26, 2007

Aja: Flairé Fan Art

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Filed under: 1. The Adhemlenei (The Four Kingdoms),Art for me!,Flairé — Tags: , — Illinia @ 9:46 pm
O_O7

O_O7

Aja: Flairé Fan Art

posted for Dec 26, 2007
(381)
flairelovelyrulesiconOh dear Farore. This incredible piece of art is by Aja of True Magic! She says that it was fun to draw. I am happy Flairé is fun to draw. He’s certainly fun to hang out with. I love the sword hilt, and the hair, and the giant leaves, and the cool bench, and the clothes! I also love the fingers (I wish I could just do hands like that) and he’s perfectly tall and skinny!

I am now going to add a ‘Fanart’ button to the sidebar so that any who wish may see this by clicking on it. However, it will take a while for this to become applicable to all pages because I have to edit code manually for every single page. It will be done someday. I have also added the ‘movies’ button link, even though there won’t be any movies for a couple of weeks, just so I don’t have to do it again. Thank goodness.

I worship Aja now.

True Magic rocks!

True Magic rocks!

 

 

 

Nothing has happened since yesterday. I’m going skating this afternoon and I wonder why.

I got a bunch of sidebars done, but I have hundreds more to do. Links will be crazy for a while. I’ll be diligent.

June 9, 2007

Heads, and Ceniro’s Sprite sketches

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Filed under: 4. Fire Emblem fanworks,Art for me!,Ceniro,Flairé,Pencil — Tags: , , , — Illinia @ 6:45 pm

Preparation for things to come!

Preparation for things to come!


Heads, and Ceniro’s Sprite sketches
drawn Aug 25 ’05
posted for June 9, 2007
(191)
poolpartyiconThis is a bunch of pictures on one page; the top three are Scherene and my different styles contrasted, with me drawing Marth and Flair(é). I don’t know what date it is because I didn’t put one, but Ceniro is marked Aug 25, so that’s what I put. On the back of this picture is a written description of Ceniro:

“Lyn watched Ceniro. As he attacked, he walked the same speed that he normally did, but when in (close) range of the enemy, his staff blurred through the air, stopping only when it came into contact with bandit flesh. It took only three hits – 2 to the vulnerable sides and ribs and one to the head – to knock one unconscious.”

Now, part of the rules for actually using Ceniro include the fact that his staff does not kill – when an enemy is at 1 HP, it falls unconscious exactly the same way as when affected by a sleep staff.

I noticed while listening to music over at The Hylia, that Twilight Princess owes a lot musically not just to Ocarina of Time, but to A Link to the Past, as well. The Hyrule Castle theme, particularly, is used frequently. I like it! Also some boss battle music, and other interesting little themes.

Only three more pictures left in this sketchbook! Then more minis!

I’ve been working on Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, and I hope to improve soon.

June 8, 2007

The Light Bearer

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Filed under: Art for me!,Pencil — Tags: — Illinia @ 6:43 pm

Who be this strange figure who emergeth from the fog?

Who be this strange figure who emergeth from the fog?


The Light Bearer
drawn Aug 25 ’05
posted for June 8, 2007
(190)
elrondandgaladrieliconToday’s picture is a guest picture, and it’s done by Scherene, who came over to my place for the first time and I bored her with my sketchbooks. It’s appropriate, considering today I was away for my Graduation ceremony.

The music I picked, the middle part of Jupiter, wasn’t needed after all as some other girl volunteered some Pink Floyd (???) before I got there. Meh. Seven grads in all… Picture taking took a while because one person was late. That was before the music stuff… which lasted all of 5 seconds and I didn’t notice it anyway. Then there were a bunch of speeches, some of which were quite interesting, and then people got introduced and handed their certificate. My French teacher, who rambles on nicely, introduced me. It was funny because he said he remembered something from English class – your speech should fit on a recipe card. So, he put it there, but he still used his other papers, too, and he couldn’t find a blank recipe card! So, he didn’t make a mistake and say ‘piecrust’, but he warned us. Then I won two bursaries, and the Governor General’s Bronze Medal!?!!! The other people who won bursaries all sounded like great people; one boy single-handedly organized the Student Council, and a girl was with NIDES for a similar reason as me – she wanted to focus on her dance. I was not expecting to win a medal. It’s pretty. And my piano teacher gave me a pretty necklace! Pretty, I say!

Dad plays Deadlock 1 obsessively.

I have begun play Link’s Awakening again, and I’m about half-way through. I managed to get the picture of Link and Marin for the first time! I’m playing to remember the plot so that I can write the sequel to Timeless Ocarina with sense. Since the game plot is pretty sketchy, I have lots of freedom! Also, it’s a bit silly. The things people say… the hints are ludicrously obvious.

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